It was an evening of impassioned discussion. Because we care about the future of our children and the end of the planet and human rights and xenophobia. We care and only the love is real.

The “problem” (challenge) comes when we allow the fear to derail the goal. “The clarification of the goal belongs at the beginning, for it is this which will determine the outcome.” It’s okay to shine the light on what is happening. In fact, we need to make sure we do so. But the purpose is not to assign guilt, not to attack; it is to demonstrate that there is another kinder, gentler, humane way of doing things. When we see through the eyes of love, it shifts the outcome from destruction to innovation. From death to life. But we can’t get there if we are busy assigning guilt. Guilt is an ego gambit.

Perception follows judgment. Having judged, we therefore see what we would look upon. For sight can merely serve to offer us what we would have. It is impossible to overlook what we would see, and fail to see what we have chosen to behold. How surely, therefore, must the real world come to greet the holy sight of anyone who takes the Holy Spirit’s purpose as his goal for seeing. And he cannot fail to look upon what Christ would have him see, and share Christ’s Love for what he looks upon.

I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all the judgments I have made. Father, this is Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well.

The Course is as powerful as it is because it is so inclusive. Everyone is an expression of God. Everyone is the loved and cherished Son of God; even those we perceive as misguided. Even those we see as dangerous.

We are witnessing the parts of ourselves that need healing.

In my defenselessness my safety lies. When we have faith in God, in the power of love, we don’t need to attack or defend. To attack the intolerable is to make it real. We look past appearances. We stand in the power of love.

God doesn’t intervene in our worldly affairs because that would make illusions real. God knows His Son (that’s each of us!) and knows who and what we are, and loves us unabashedly. We made the nonsense, the illusions. It is up to us to unmake it, but we can only do it by refusing to feed it. We have to quit feeding the hungry dogs of fear and rely on the messengers of God.

The trap is that we think it’s so hard. But how can that which never was be difficult to dismiss? It only seems insurmountable because we’ve believed in it so completely.

Someone brought up the anti-Christ. But there IS no anti-Christ. That’s a belief in duality, a belief that something/someone could be apart from God; that Wholeness excludes. The separation never happened. We just pretend that it did so that we can play make-believe at calling the shots for a while. And we are stubborn about allowing ourselves to notice what we are up to because once we do, the gig is up, and as crappy of a job as we do sometimes, we love it – the drama, the excitement, the belief is life and death and good and bad. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”